Sentences with phrase «houses use less energy»

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In Tucson's historic Armory Park neighborhood, John Wesley Miller is constructing a community of 99 solar - powered Mission - style houses that use up to 80 percent less energy than the surrounding houses yet sell in the low $ 200,000 s. Brian Bombeck, president of the Sacramento Land division of U.S. Home, is overseeing a grand plan to install solar roofs on nearly half the 1,880 houses in a development near the California state capital.

So it would cost less to insulate every home than to burn coal to provide the energy now used to heat and cool uninsulated houses.

This can provide substantial savings in your house — they use 90 % + less energy than standard lightbulbs.

The Maisons Labbà © website calls it a «Bioclimactic house», that uses 60 % less energy than a conventional house.

We have to rebuild our cities to use less energy and house more people, and Passivhaus design is a useful tool for both problems.

If the Passive House (or Passivhaus) standard was the building code standard, our houses would use a lot less energy and would be a lot more reslient.

Yes, but a smaller house will always be greener because fewer resources were used in its construction and less energy is needed to heat and

They said this less because they see Trump moderating his stances and more because many of the targets set by Obama, and built on in Clinton campaign pledges, were based on shifts in energy use that are largely being driven by market forces or longstanding environmental laws that are relatively immune to the influence of any particular occupant of the White House.

In other words, someone who acquires a house that uses 80 % less energy than other houses suddenly has more disposable income, and is therefore likely to buy more stuff or go on more vacations.

We Americans could use a lot less energy with better housing and with denser cities (walkable, electrified public transit), though of course building new buildings takes energy of its own.

all the while technology makes cars get higher mpg, solar helps entire nations power themselves — hell, even the white house is putting up solar panels, and the branches of the US military are prepping to draw 25 % of all energy from renewables in a few years, and electric cars whiz around, and LEDs use 75 % less energy.

Tiny houses use less material, and don't take as much energy to heat.

A Passive House typically uses less than half the energy of an ENERGY STAR house and is the low cost path to net zero energy buildings, meeting California's Green House Gas Reduction AB 32 targets, and exceeding thresholds proposed in the CA PUC's Long - term Strategic House typically uses less than half the energy of an ENERGY STAR house and is the low cost path to net zero energy buildings, meeting California's Green House Gas Reduction AB 32 targets, and exceeding thresholds proposed in the CA PUC's Long - term Strategicenergy of an ENERGY STAR house and is the low cost path to net zero energy buildings, meeting California's Green House Gas Reduction AB 32 targets, and exceeding thresholds proposed in the CA PUC's Long - term StrategicENERGY STAR house and is the low cost path to net zero energy buildings, meeting California's Green House Gas Reduction AB 32 targets, and exceeding thresholds proposed in the CA PUC's Long - term Strategic house and is the low cost path to net zero energy buildings, meeting California's Green House Gas Reduction AB 32 targets, and exceeding thresholds proposed in the CA PUC's Long - term Strategicenergy buildings, meeting California's Green House Gas Reduction AB 32 targets, and exceeding thresholds proposed in the CA PUC's Long - term Strategic House Gas Reduction AB 32 targets, and exceeding thresholds proposed in the CA PUC's Long - term Strategic Plan.

While the house is very energy efficient, solar heated, uses less material and labor, it also just looks really nice.

This year's winning house blends green design with a plan to encourage the surrounding community to get together and discuss ways to use less energy.

The normalized results, shown in Figure 3, indicate that the two sealed attic houses used an average of 19 percent (between 15 and 22 percent) less cooling energy than the reference 1:150 vented attic house.

it is a gaurantee that the house will use less energy after the remodeling if it meets the Energy Star standarenergy after the remodeling if it meets the Energy Star standarEnergy Star standards....

We must also take action on carbon dioxide emission and that will mean significant adjustments to our economies: more efficient power stations, cars which use less fuel, better - insulated houses and better management of energy in general.

Effective Insulation — Properly installed insulation that meets or exceeds national code requirements helps achieve even temperatures throughout the house while using less energy.

But it is no substitute for good urban design that gets us out of our cars, denser housing types that can support walkable communities, and better buildings that use less energy in the first place.

[Block quote] A 1,500 - square - foot house with mediocre energy - performance standards will use far less energy for heating and cooling than a 3,000 - square - foot house of comparable geometry with much better energy detailing.

In the case of Ebeltoft, the house uses 80 percent less energy than a same - sized standard Danish home, saving 2 tons of CO2 emissions per year.

Talk in some detail about food, housing, heating, clothing, transportation, and how the vast majority of our 7 billion who live in cities are going to survive on less than 10 % of current energy use.

Energy modeling shows that a 1,500 - square - foot home with poor insulation can still use less energy than a house twice its size with good insulEnergy modeling shows that a 1,500 - square - foot home with poor insulation can still use less energy than a house twice its size with good insulenergy than a house twice its size with good insulation.

It's pointless designing an organic garden and then buying a gas guzzling vehicle or building a house from concrete and steel when we can use local materials with less embodied energy.

No furnaces are needed, because they're projected to use up to 90 percent less energy than a typical house.

The smart home company claims Netatmo Smart Valves allow users to control their heating on a room - by - room basis and use on average 37 percent less energy to heat their home without compromising on comfort.The Smart Valves can be used in houses with both individual heating and collective heating systems by fitting them on hot - water radiators, where they work to regulate the temperature of each room as part of a heating schedule and adapt to the habits and movements of residents.For example, the bathroom is heated to 21 °C during the morning, but not for the rest of the day when it is not being used; the parents» bedroom remains at 16 °C during the day when it is empty,

Using less energy to cool your house is a win - win for your clients» pocketbook and the environment.

Properly insulated houses not only use less energy, they also have better moisture control, meaning roofs and walls last longer.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson — who testified about the partnership before Congress — said the idea is that these goals would wind up emphasizing developments that use less land and energy, provide affordable housing to people of all income and stages of life, make it easier for people to get to their destinations on foot, bike or public transit and direct growth to developed areas.

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD and the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) offer multiple loan discounts that recognize apartment properties that use less energy.

The houses of the future will have to be smaller and use less energy.